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Great reads from around the web on June 29th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The short version is, Facebook has the ability to make you feel good or bad, just by tweaking what shows up in your news feed.” – eMarketer -.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

Bloomerang

Once you have those numbers, clearly articulate your goals and identify what you need to meet your goals. How many people are you planning to feed? . How much food do you need to feed them, and within what time period? . Begin by compiling your own numbers to use as the basis for improvement. Let’s say you’re a food bank.

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8 Must-Have Tools For Your Fundraising Toolkit

Get Fully Funded

It should be easy to understand and you need to be able to articulate it clearly. Or that it costs you 27 cents to feed a hungry person. You need a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) to attract tons of attention and support for your cause. It needs to be something that challenges status quo and stirs people’s hearts.

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What does a Purpose-Driven Company Look Like?

Saleforce Nonprofit

You’ll find it sprinkled throughout your social media feed and making headlines at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. It starts with articulating a clear, authentic, and long-term purpose — something that is true today, and that guides the organization into the future. What’s next?

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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Here’s Your Chance – A Message to All New Graduates in Philanthropy

Achieve

It has now become a fun game for me to hear them articulate what I do. Couple that preference to do good with new technology tools to feed on that impulse to act for others, and it seems like a perfect storm of taking our interests to action for causes. My parents still struggle telling their friends what I do.

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How to Build Great Organizations for Greater Societal Impact

Connection Cafe

Here are some of the principles articulated in Pillar 5 of the Performance Imperative: The board, management, and staff take on the challenge of collecting and using information, not because it’s a good marketing tool and not because a funder said they have to.

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